Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:19:06 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, picoBSD <small@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Subject: Re: Trinux (+ a proposal) Message-ID: <89416.916262346@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:34:53 %2B0100." <XFMail.990113163453.asmodai@wxs.nl>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Well, since kzip has been fubared by the ELF transition, do we have a
> suitable replacement anyway for the unpacking? Or am I thinking in the
> wrong unpacking terms?
You're thinking in the wrong unpacking terms - we don't want to
compress binaries since it makes their contents impossible to share.
> OK, dumb remark mayhaps, but what would be the benefit of using different
> scripting languages for every nook and cranny in the OS? I mean, we're
> using Forth in the new boot{loader|strapper|configuration} and then we are
It's not sufficient to the task. Forth is a fine language for small
boot programs and such, but I wouldn't want to write complex UIs or
anything else in it. And I would have been happy to use TCL in the
boot blocks instead if I'd had a couple of hundred K to play with
rather than just 20K or so. :)
> Jordan, you are referring to the shrink/grow abilities such as VxFS and JFS
> them have (JFS can only grow I thought)?
No, I'm just referring to a resizable MFS. Don't get carried away. :)
> Sorry, RTLD? Real-Time LoaDer?
Run-time. UTSL. :)
- Jordan
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?89416.916262346>